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On the eve of America’s 250th birthday celebration, a specter is haunting the National Mall.
The White House is planning to light up the sky with what it says will be “the largest pyrotechnics display in the history of the world,” as well as a program of musical performances to honor America’s service members.
Before that glorious spectacle, the president should command the National Park Service to impose order on the lawlessness unfolding outside his window. Washingtonian reports on a band of food truck pirates, “organized crime operating in plain sight,” operating with impunity on the National Mall. They reportedly make up prices willy-nilly; don’t pay taxes; rack up tickets and fines; and threaten their law-abiding competitors. They have “commandeered Constitution Avenue.”
With 100 degree days approaching, many of these trucks, parked bumper to bumper, are roving fire hazards, their drivers carelessly splashing canola oil and gasoline on the sidewalk while swapping propane tanks with no regard for the law. In 2024, two people were critically injured when a food truck burst into flames on the Mall. And they’re disgusting. Guided by the proprietor of the longtime D.C. food truck operator D.C. Slices, Zack Graybill of Washingtonian spotted a truck operating with the generator turned off. “The food isn’t being refrigerated,” he told the magazine. “That’s fucked up. That’s gross.”
A local, licensed D.C. truck operator told Washingtonian she now tries to avoid the National Mall because the pirates “have machetes, knives.” Take one guess what language these food truck fanatics were speaking. This isn’t the American entrepreneurial spirit at work. No, “Many of the vehicles also have the same Arabic phrase above their passenger doors, translating to ‘In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful’”—and they pay “watchers” to look out for cops.
This is no way to run one of America’s crown jewels, and there is, in fact, somebody who can do something about it. While D.C. has authority over the streets, the National Park Service, operated by the Department of the Interior, has authority over the sidewalks and the National Mall. The agency has the authority to tow the trucks, arrest their proprietors, and track down the owners, a cabal of three or four people.
President Trump had enormous success unleashing the National Guard in Washington, D.C., last summer, when he bemoaned the fact that the city had been “overrun by violent criminals” and pledged to “take our capital back.” Mr. President, it’s time to take out the trash.
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Heat Mortality Surges In Europe

Heat-related mortality in Europe has surged over the last couple of decades.

As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, according to the latest available data published by the Lancet Countdown 2025 Report, between 2012 and 2021, 5.5 people per 100,000 population died of heat-related causes per year on the continent.

This is almost double the annual rate observed between 1992 and 2021.

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Similarly rapid surges were observed over the same time period in Asia-Pacific as well as in the Americas.

However, heat deaths stayed on a lower level in these regions and reached only an annual 3.4 and 2.1 in 100,000, respectively, during the last decade.

All three continents in question have an aging population, making heatwaves more deadly as it is older people who predominantly succumb to heat-related causes.

But Europe is also less prepared than other continents for a changing climate as its many temperate regions have not built for the heat and have traditionally neither been equipped for it, may that be in terms of air conditioner ownership or knowledge of ways to stay cool.

Hotter (and younger) regions of the globe have not seen the same developments in heat-related mortality, even though they do experience consistently higher levels of it.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East as well as South and Southeast Asia, brutal heatwaves claim the lives between nine and 14 people per 100,000 every year.

In all three regions, this figure has changed by at most 10 percent since the 1990s.

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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are taking their political playbook nationwide. One week after DSA-aligned candidates scored ballot-box victories over establishment-backed contenders in two congressional primaries in New York City that grabbed outsized national attention, the group scored another major upset in a deep-blue U.S. House district in Denver, Colorado.Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette, who was first elected to Congress in 1996 and took office in 1997, was defeated by DSA-backed Melat Kiros, a first-time candidate and former attorney who is 29 years old.Kiros’ victory comes a week after Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old progressive community organizer in New York City, ousted incumbent Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and state Assembly Member Claire Valdez, another DSA-aligned contender, won a congressional primary to succeed retiring Rep. Nydia Velázquez.VICTORIES BY MAMDANI-BACKED CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES SPOTLIGHTS GROWING RIFT IN DEMOCRATIC PARTYThe victories by Chevalier and Valdez, who were backed by socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, coupled with the win this week by Kiros, are further emboldening the progressive left as it takes on the center-left establishment in a high-stakes battle for the future of the Democratic Party. Hasan Piker, the controversial, far-left streamer, at the Kiros primary night event in Denver, told Fox News, “I think progressive politics, left populism, a politics that centers the needs of the working class, can work in every district, in every state. That’s why I kept saying over and over again, it’s coming to a city near you.” The latest DSA primary victory came in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, a Democrat-dominated seat anchored in Denver that then-Vice President Kamala Harris carried by nearly 56 points in the 2024 election.”Another Democratic Socialist is going to Congress!,” the DSA touted in a social media post. “Congresswoman Kiros will take the fight for a better world to D.C: to Abolish ICE, free Palestine, and win Universal Childcare and Medicare for All.” Kiros, who lost her job as a lawyer in New York after writing an essay critical of Israel, was also supported by Justice Democrats, the nearly decade-old political group known for heavily supporting “Squad” members Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib as they toppled entrenched incumbents in their initial elections to Congress. DEMOCRACY ’26: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUBUniversity of Colorado regent Wanda James, who jumped into the Democratic congressional primary in April and was described as a spoiler, finished third, in single digits. Progressives also scored an impressive victory in the neighboring 8th Congressional District, a crucial swing seat which stretches along the I-25 corridor north of Denver. State Rep. Manny Rutinel tallied a convincing double-digit victory over former state Rep. Shannon Bird, a more moderate candidate. Rutinel will now take on Republican Rep. Gabe Evans, who flipped the seat in the 2024 cycle. The race is considered one of two or three dozen that will determine if the GOP holds onto its razor-thin House majority in the midterms. Immigration was a top issue in the Democratic primary in a district where roughly 40% of the population is Latino. Rutinel criticized Bird for a vote she cast last year opposing a measure limiting cooperation between local and state law enforcement and ICE. And Rutinel was boosted by big spending from allies, including prominent Latino groups. While Rutinel has tempered his previous support for top progressive issues, including Medicare for All and opposition to fracking, Republicans viewed him as the easier general election challenger than Bird. During the primary campaign, the right spotlighted pictures of him rallying alongside Mamdani.”Democrats have chosen a far-left, radical socialist, Mamdani-wanna-be extremist — someone who supports eliminating oil and gas, defunding law enforcement, calling farmers and ranchers horrific, and threatening the industries that power our economy,” Evans charged in a statement. Another primary showdown highlighting the split between progressives and moderates, as well as the party’s generational divide, was the Senate nomination battle between incumbent Sen. John Hickenlooper, 74, and former state Sen. Julie Gonzales, a 43-year-old progressive. Hickenlooper, a former Denver mayor and two-term governor, saw his once-large advantage over Gonzales, a one-time DSA member, narrow in the weeks ahead of the primary. Hickenlooper prevailed and will now be the clear favorite in the general election against Republican state Sen. Mark Baisley, who was unopposed in his primary. But Gonzales saw a silver lining in defeat, writing in a statement, “My heart is full, knowing that we’ve put the Democratic establishment on notice: keep taking folks like us for granted at your own peril.” Meanwhile, state Attorney General Phil Weiser topped U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in the expensive and combustible Democratic gubernatorial primary. Weiser, who ran to Bennet’s left on certain issues, closed the gap with the senator as he spotlighted his efforts to take on President Donald Trump, including filing or joining dozens of lawsuits against the Trump administration as attorney general.Longtime Democratic strategist Joe Caiazzo, a veteran of progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, told Fox News Digital that “it is undeniable that progressives have built a coalition and have a message that can serve to buoy a candidate when they are an acceptable alternative to the status quo.” While plenty of mainstream Democrats have racked up primary victories in recent weeks, it is the far-left that’s grabbing the media spotlight. And that’s giving Republicans more ammunition as they portray all Democrats as radicals. “The socialist takeover of the Democrat Party is no longer confined to deep-blue strongholds. The radicals are taking over battleground districts, putting must-win seats out of reach for Democrats and sinking their chances of flipping the House,” NRCC Spokesman Mike Marinella said as he pointed to Rutinel’s victory. Fox News’ Olivia Palombo and Matthew Donnell contributed to this report

A 23-month-old Florida boy was found dead Monday inside an SUV outside A World of Discovery Academy after his father mistakenly believed he had dropped him off at daycare, authorities said.The Plantation Police Department and Plantation Fire Department responded at approximately 5:39 p.m. Monday to a report of an unresponsive child inside a vehicle at the early childhood education center.Firefighters pronounced the child dead at the scene.Leslie Novoa, the owner of A World of Discovery Academy, told WSVN-TV she called 911 alongside the toddler’s father after the child was discovered in the back seat of the family’s SUV.HEARTBROKEN FATHER BLASTS ‘BROKEN’ SYSTEM THAT LET FAMILY MASSACRE TAKE HIS CHILDREN BEFORE THEY COULD REUNITE”This is hard for the parents, hard for us,” Novoa told the station. “This is sad to see this family – a wonderful family – to go through so much pain.”Novoa said the father arrived at the daycare to pick up his son before realizing the child had never been dropped off.”Unfortunately, the dad arrived to pick up his child, and when he arrived to the parking lot, he realized he forgot the child,” she said. “He never dropped off the child at the school.”PARENTS OF 7-YEAR-OLD WHO DIED WEIGHING 255 POUNDS CHARGED WITH MURDER IN SUSPECTED NEGLECT CASENovoa said she has known the family for six years and described them as loving parents whose three children attended the daycare.”Like I said before, they’re a very loving family, and unfortunately, this happened,” Novoa said.The daycare later released a statement expressing condolences and pledging support for the family.WISCONSIN TEEN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN BRUTAL SLAYING OF 5-YEAR-OLD BOY FOUND IN DUMPSTER”Our primary responsibility is the safety and well-being of our students and their families,” the daycare wrote.”We communicated with our school community as soon as possible, and we remain in contact with our families to provide support during this incredibly difficult time,” it continued. “This student and their family are beloved members of our community. At this time, our focus is on supporting those grieving this immense loss.”According to Kids and Car Safety, formerly KidsAndCars.org, about 40 children die in hot cars each year in the United States. The organization says roughly half of those deaths occur after a parent or caregiver unintentionally leaves a child inside a vehicle.Plantation police said the circumstances surrounding the child’s death remain under investigation.

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